If a niche community has people that persistently downvote every post
- is that healthy for the community?
- is that healthy for lemmy in general?
Examples that come to mind are political communities, linus tech tips, diet communities, etc. There will be a group of people who will not make comments, posts, but will strictly downvote everything that is in the community.
This is a continuation of a discussion @Blaze@feddit.org and I started elsewhere, but it deserves it’s own space for meta-moderation discussion.
Healthy for the community, no.
Healthy for Lemmy, yes.
Sometimes a community is wrong.
Anything that disables Downvotes is automatically suspicious since it’s disabling community interaction. If everyone agrees you are a piece of shit you probably are. This is from someone with over 100 downvotes on a nested comment.
Downvotes are important.